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A national law firm has lodged a representative complaint against Qantas, seeking compensation on behalf of millions of customers whose personal data was compromised in ...
Grace Robbie • Sat, 19 Jul 2025
Qantas obtains injunction to prevent hacked data’s release
Qantas has obtained a court injunction to prevent any person or organisation from publishing the customer information stolen in its recent hack.
Adam Thorn • Thu, 17 Jul 2025
UAP confirms ransomware attack, personal data and email correspondence exposed
Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party has informed its members of a data breach, but admits “it is impracticable to notify individuals”.
David Hollingworth • Thu, 17 Jul 2025
Australia adopts AS IEC 62443 as national cyber security standard to protect critical infrastructure
Newly adopted standards offer a clearer and more structured approach to protecting operational technology in critical infrastructure settings.
Tasmanian kids get a taste of ethical hacking courtesy of the AFP
The AFP-led Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre hosted re_B00TCMP last month, offering students a glimpse of a career in cyber security.
Meta patches AI chatbot bug capable of leaking user AI prompts and responses
A bug in Meta’s AI chatbot that allowed users to access the prompts and responses of other Meta AI users has been patched.
Daniel Croft • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
Australia confirms establishment of cyber reserves workforce by early 2026
Australia will establish a cyber reserves workforce for the Australian Defence Force by early 2026, under a Cyber Reserve Concept recommended by the recent Defence ...
Robert Dougherty • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
2025 ESET Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship revealed
Samia Arshad Mehar from the University of Technology Sydney has walked away with a scholarship worth $5,000.
David Hollingworth • Wed, 16 Jul 2025
The spare change: Another UnitedHealth subsidiary has suffered a data breach
Well over a year after the Change Healthcare data breach, a second subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group has suffered a data breach, exposing the data of over several ...
auDA awards grants worth $2.5m to guard against scams and quantum risk
Australia’s domain name administrator splashes cash to transition to quantum-safe DNS and scam prevention and support.
Not lovin’ it: McDonald’s hiring back end exposes 64m chatbot job discussions
Researchers were able to access the hiring chatbot’s back end after finding it was protected by a default password: “123456”.
Daniel Croft • Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Report: The vast majority of Aussie companies are badly misusing AI
Australian companies lack defined AI strategies while AI ambitions far outstrip implementation.
David Hollingworth • Tue, 15 Jul 2025
Hacked Elmo X account demands Trump release Epstein files, spews anti-Semitic hate
Hackers have targeted the X account of the famous children’s character Elmo to demand that Trump release the Epstein files, and they have published racist and ...